Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Actually a lot is happening in the world right now, G8/G20, World Cup, Fedor lost, you may have noticed two of these three things. Of course Fedor’s loss brought down a few websites. I have been trying to keep myself busy working on hobby projects. I also spent considerable time on Sunday [...]

I still haven’t gotten a cent from whatever government service I’m supposed to be collecting from now that I’ve been unemployed for almost three months… I filled in all the forms, I’ve dropped off the stuff, I’ve called… I’ve been living off the line of credit I established while I was a software [...]

So today I got off my fat lazy ass and biked to the bigger Home Depot. They didn’t have a special electrified knife for cutting insulation foam, neither did the big art supply store. I did buy a ‘jab saw’ which should work better on the long straight cut than the jewelry saw [...]

I finally won a game of Civilization IV on the third difficulty level, not that impressive perhaps, but it took many tries. Civilization IV has been taking up too much of my time and affecting my sleep pattern. I’ve also been watching a lot of hockey on TV, but with the first team [...]

How are they connected? Well after I’m done checking my email, RSS feeds, and key job boards, I’ve been spending hours playing Civilization IV Warlords. It has probably affected my sleep pattern. The Civilization style games are addictive and although Civ 5 is supposedly around the corner, now that I’m ‘funemployed’ to [...]